Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
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Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
Author
King, Henry, 1592-1669.
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London :: Printed and sold by the booksellers,
1700.
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"Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47404.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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Silence. A SONNET.
PEace my hearts blab, be ever dumb,Sorrowes speak loud without a tongue:And my perplexed thoughts forbearTo breath your selves in any ear:Tis scarce a true or manly griefWhich gaddes abroad to find relief.
Was ever stomack that lackt meatNourisht by what another eat?
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Can I bestow it, or will woeForsake me when I bid it goe?Then Ile believe a wounded breastMay heal by shrift, and purchase rest.
But if imparting it I doNot ease my self, but trouble two,'Tis better I alone possessMy treasure of unhappiness:Engrossing that which is my ownNo longer then it is unknown.
If silence be a kind of death,He kindles grief who gives it breath;But let it rak't in embers lye,On thine own hearth 'twill quickly dye;And spight of fate, that very wombeWhich carries it, shall prove its tombe.
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